Guaranteed Shipment In 3 Days

•Accelerated Delivery is an option we offer for those on a tight deadline. Orders placed with this option are guaranteed to ship within three business days. •100% of the fee is given to fabricators who volunteer to build these orders after hours and on the weekends •See the Accelerate Delivery Page for additional details.

The 48 Portable Event Bar is a great all around sized bar for just about any event. It’s very spacious for one bartender but can accommodate two if needed. At a full 4′ wide and only weighing 70 lbs, it easily sets up in seconds and folds down to just 8″ for transport and storage. Combined with our Nexus LED Lighting system, the 48 mobile bar will help you make an impact whether you use it for mobile bartending, events and weddings or corporate trade shows.

Setup In Seconds

The 48 portable folding bar assembly is extremely simple and can be done in just seconds. Because of our bar’s unique self-contained designed, everything easily folds inside the bar with the exception of the bar top. There are no bolts, pins or complex hardware needed to set up our folding bars and anyone can assemble it without instructions.

Logos, Graphics, and Branding

Adding logos or branding is a great way to customize your portable bars look whether you’re promoting your new product line, your mobile bartending business or just want to show off your love for your favorite sports team and best of all the front panel graphics are FREE on every mobile bar! Visit the Graphics and Branding tab above for more info on our printing capabilities and requirements.

Bar Top Options

You can choose from three bar top options. Square, Curve, and Wrap.

Square Tops are best used when either space is a big issue since these tops only extend slightly beyond the bar’s frame. Multiple bars with square tops can be pushed together to create one long straight bar.

Curve tops provide a unique look and add additional bar top space. They’re also used to create larger circular or curved bars. Both the square and curved bar tops are the same depth and can be pushed together to form one seamless looking top.

Wrap bar tops are the best way to maximize your useable bar top area and they provide a high-end look to the 48″ bar.

Yes and no. They can be used outside on a temporary basis and will not be irreparably damaged by a storm crashing your wedding or event. However, they should not be left outside long term.

While the majority of our portable bars are made with components that are resistant to water (aluminum, stainless steel, water-resistant lighting) there are a few components that may rust due to long term exposure to rain and salt water.

Our protective covers are water resistant so if you plan on using your portable bar outside, we recommend ordering a cover to keep it protected when it’s not being used.

All of the acrylic panels are removable and can be replaced if needed. The side panels are universal throughout the entire portable bar series (excluding mini bars) while the fronts will only fit that specific bar.

BRANDING & GRAPHICS ON YOUR PORTABLE BAR

Whether you're using your portable bar at conventions to promote your product, events and weddings, as satellite bars in restaurants or even as a home bar, there is no better way to customize it than to add your own personal touch with branding graphics and logos. Luckily here at Customized Design's, we've invested in some of the latest and most advanced printing technology available which means we're able to do all of our printing in-house. This drastically reduces the cost and lead times. So much that we offer free graphics on the front panels of each of our portable bars!

Why our graphics are different

Unlike our competitors, our graphics are not stickers. Our graphics are permanently printed directly onto the removable acrylic panels which means they are more durable and will never peel off over time. This printing process gives us much more flexibility with your graphics since we don't need to apply vinyl decals to the entire surface of the bar panels even for logos that don't cover the entire area.

Printing directly on the surface also produces a much more desirable effect when backlit and since all of our portable bars include LED lighting, we feel this is really important. Bars with a lot of color can produce very cool effects when the LED lighting changes colors. See an example of this here. Grayscale (black and white) graphics also look great when backlit with different colors.

Another big advantage of our direct print technology is that we can completely block out the LED lighting with the graphic and leave only certain portions of your graphics lit up which will make them pop even more. This is something that isn't possible with traditional vinyl graphics.

Sending us your graphics and requirements

Our printers are capable of printing very high resolution and the higher quality your graphics are the higher quality the end product will be. For simple logos we prefer graphics be in vector format when possible. This is because vector graphics can be stretched infinitely without loss of quality. These formats are usually in .AI, .EPS, or .PDF form. Full image graphics should be as high resolution as possible.

Please do not send us extremely low-quality images for your portable bar graphics. These two examples of our logo (low)(high) illustrate the difference between low quality and high-quality graphics. If you don't have the high-resolution version of your graphics handy please try to find them before submitting them to us.

What to do if you don't have high-resolution graphics

Not all is lost! If you've done everything you can to find the highest resolution version or original artwork but can't, shoot them over to us anyway and we'll do what we can to make them work. Many companies will charge a fee for not submitting print ready artwork. We are not one of those companies.

Creating graphics specifically for our mobile bars

These are a few tips if you or your graphic designer are creating graphics specifically for our portable bars.

Artwork should be in RGB color mode. Not CMYK

All blacks and black backgrounds should be RGB 0,0,0. Anything less will allow lighting to bleed through the image

All images outside the acrylic panel outline should be cropped to the correct size or hidden with a clipping mask

If your graphics are too large to be sent via email be sure to contact us for our dropbox information

What to do if you don't have graphics at all

No problem! Contact us and we'll help you put something together. (within reason)

We also offer free, high resolution, stock graphic with every bar purchase. See the bottom of the Logo Submission page for more info.

Keep in mind that images without white backgrounds need to be close to the Length x Height ratios of our bar panels. For example, this image will work on the 77Bar but it won't work on the 48 or 62.

The portable folding bars can be customized in a number of ways outside of the standardized options available online. Below is a list of a few possible advanced customization options and ideas. Be sure to contact us for additional info and pricing.

Colored Bar Tops

All bar tops can be covered with countertop laminates that we use on our other products. Bar tops are still made with the same acrylic and the edges will remain white.

Laminated Front & Side Panels

If the translucent backlit white isn\’t the look you\’re going for, you can opt to have your bar panels made with any of the available finishes on the colors page.

This option will make your panels completely opaque and will block out all of the lighting. Lighting would still be visible through the bar top unless you opted for a laminated bar top.

You would only go this route if you do not want your bar to be lighted.

Panels would still be removable and interchangeable.

Branding and Logos can be printed directly on these panels.

Custom Bar Top Shapes

Bar tops can be made in virtually any size or shape as long as they are compatible with the bar frame.

Tops can be in the shape of your product, a bottle for example, or some other custom shape to match your brand or layout.

Most designs would require being long and narrow. A Patron bottle, for example, would not be compatible with any bar, but a Grey Goose bottle would.

Other ideas may be to fit multiple bars together to form different shapes. One example of this can be seen

Prep Area Grid Examples

The grid system allows you to use multiple arrangements with a single cutout. For example, a cutout (hole) for a 2/3 sized pan can fit (1) 2/3 pan or (2) 1/3 pans or (1) 2/3 pan plus (2) 1/6 pans…and so on.

Below are a number of examples using the steam table grid layout. In these examples, there are two different sized cutouts in the panels. One is for a 2/3 pan and the other is for a 1/3 pan.